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Steve Peplin

CEO

Talan Products www.talanproducts.com

Talan Products is a High Volume Metal Stamping Manufacturer

Steve Peplin is the CEO of Talan Products, a Cleveland-based contract manufacturer specializing in high volume metal stamping.

Peplin founded Talan Products in 1986 with an initial capitalization of just $2100. Over 20 years later, Talan is still doing business with its founding customer (its second, third and fourth customer, also).

Today, Talan has annual revenues over $25 million and employees 60 in the City of Cleveland proper. Ownership of Talan was consolidated in 1996 to include other partners. Talan has won numerous local and national awards for growth and manufacturing excellence. Talan uses progressive management concepts and programs to achieve continued success in an industry where U.S. manufacturers have been struggling mightily with low-cost foreign competition.

Peplin's non-traditional preparation for this role included attending the Cleveland Urban Learning Community (a progressive non-structured experimental high school), and the University of Wyoming. A host of adventure jobs during his youth (oilfield roughneck, cowboy, logger) prepared him well for the rigors of executive leadership and have imbued him with a deeper-than-typical understanding of the manufacturing floor-level employee's psyche.

Peplin lives with his long time partner, Cathy Hattenbach, in Chagrin Falls, and has an adult son, Chris. Peplin's "best buddy" is Bernie, a 135-pound Bernese mountain dog who roams the Talan office complex in search of treats and hugs, if not managerial insights.

08/12/2008

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